[Icecast] Procedure to Install Icecast 2.4.2 in Linux

Tue Nov 3 01:58:06 UTC 2015

Thank's Philipp and Dmitrijs. That got it fixed. I just pointed the web and admin settings where they belong and all's working great. Thanks for the sighup help, Dmitrijs.

Jeremiah Rogers
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> On Nov 2, 2015, at 08:35, Philipp Schafft <lion at lion.leolix.org> wrote:
> 
> Good afternoon,
> 
>> On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 07:19 -0500, Jeremiah Rogers wrote:
>> Sorry to reply to myself. The message says "could not parse xslt".
> 
> Ok. Please have a look at the config file (icecast*.xml). In the <paths>
> section there should be a <webroot> as well as a <adminroot> setting. Do
> those point to existing directories with some *.xsl in them?
> 
> Another litte hint: apt-get install --reinstall ...
> 
> Have a nice day!
> 
>> Jeremiah Rogers
>> Cell: 704-996-5334
>> Email: jeremiahzrogers at gmail.com
>> Social Networking: /jzrogers
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 2, 2015, at 05:51, Jeremiah Rogers <jeremiahzrogers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello Philipp. Thanks so much for the educatin about why not to build myself.
>>> 
>>> The error I was getting, from a browser when I tried to open the URL to my machine running Icecast, was a 404 error and a message that it couldn't find the XSLT files. I'll install the packaged build again later today and provide you exact error text, but I remember it saying it couldn't find or process the XSLT.
>>> 
>>> Would it be helpful for me to do an apt-get download icecast2 and somehow provide the resulting download to someone off-list so they can see what I got?
>>> 
>>> Jeremiah Rogers
>>> Cell: 704-996-5334
>>> Email: jeremiahzrogers at gmail.com
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>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 2, 2015, at 02:17, Philipp Schafft <lion at lion.leolix.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Good morning,
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sun, 2015-11-01 at 18:12 -0500, Jeremiah Rogers wrote:
>>>>> Hi all. I'm brand new to Linux and want to install Icecast 2.4.2 on Raspian.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I used apt-get to install Icecast 2.4.0, and the install would stream 
>>>>> music, but none of the status or admin pages would work. I ran the 
>>>>> install by typing sudo apt-get install icecast2 from ~.
>>>> 
>>>> Ok, that sounds right.
>>>> 
>>>> What error message you get when accessing those pages?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> I thought I might get better results if I built and installed myself. 
>>>>> Anyone able to provide step-by-step instructions to unpack and build 
>>>>> from the tar.gz, or point me to a good tutorial online for doing such? 
>>>>> In particular, which directory should I be in to initiate the work? Do I 
>>>>> need to use sudo? Once installed, what do I do to make it run on system 
>>>>> boot? I will be running this install from a fresh image. Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> I very much recommend against installing stuff from source. This is not
>>>> so much related to Icecast2 but a general statement.
>>>> 
>>>> The reasons why I recommend using pre-compiled packages are as the
>>>> following. The importance of individual aspects vary depending on your
>>>> situation.
>>>>    * You will not get updates. You will likely never notice that
>>>>      there are updates out there. This is a big problem as no
>>>>      SECURITY fixes can reach you. Thus installing stuff from source
>>>>      can be very harmful.
>>>>    * Most people install stuff from source without verifying the
>>>>      source. (Or have no way to really verify it at all as they're
>>>>      (cryptographically speaking) too far away from the source. So
>>>>      you will run a software that may be altered on it's path to you
>>>>      (this includes everything from simple transmission errors to
>>>>      attacks specially targeted to you). Thus you can not trust the
>>>>      software most of the time. Once your ran any untrusted software
>>>>      your system must be considered compromised.
>>>>    * The package is made to fit your system while the source is not.
>>>>      e.g. the package usually installs scripts and helper files to
>>>>      e.g. start a daemon on system start up or intigrate with tools
>>>>      like logrotate. You need to do all that yourself and may or may
>>>>      not aware of all those things. See your question above. You have
>>>>      asked for it already so you got this point already :).
>>>>    * If people run the package provided by the OS it's more easy to
>>>>      handle bugs. There is a single packet that you can report bugs
>>>>      against and the maintainer can upstream bugs or cooperate with
>>>>      upstream in any way to solve problems. If you run your own
>>>>      package you need to take care yourself.
>>>>    * You waste energy. Compiling is process taking a lot of energy.
>>>>      And there is no reason for the mass do to this as the
>>>>      pre-compiled binaries are matching your system virtually
>>>>      perfectly. Energy is the ONLY single one resource on this planet
>>>>      we are RUNNING OUT OF.
>>>> 
>>>> So for the reasons above I would prefer to work on fixing the problem
>>>> above and not go with source code. Plus I think you will learn a bit
>>>> about the system that is new to you. :)
>>>> 
>>>> Have a nice day! Awaiting your response with the error message(s).
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Philipp.
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